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A Chinese development can improve the afterburner efficiency in fighter jets to 99 per cent. Photo: CCTV
China's military weapons

Scientists increase fighter jet afterburner efficiency to nearly 100%: study

Pioneering technology to improve afterburner efficiency could make the Chinese military unrivalled in air combat.

South China Sea

China develops first cable winch system that can reach deepest place on Earth

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Space

Earth bids farewell to temporary ‘mini moon’ that is possibly a chunk of actual moon

China's military weapons

Coating makes China’s stealth aircraft invisible to anti-stealth radar: study

Chinese military scientists have achieved the impossible with a new stealth material that can defeat anti-stealth radar.

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Anti-stealth radar, such as this one at a Chinese air show, will be blind to aircraft and weapons coated with a newly developed stealth material made by Chinese scientists. Photo: Dickson Lee
Drones

‘Recoilless AK-47’ that can be used by most drones built by Chinese scientists

‘Multiple tests have confirmed effectiveness’ of automatic rifle with almost no recoil specifically designed for unmanned warfare.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

‘China EV’ sends Google search buzzing, as trail goes cold for ‘global warming’

Google Trends data shows the world is more excited by the latest clean energy vehicles than the noble principles behind them.

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Award-winning mathematician Wang Xujia back in China after decades in Australia

Westlake University in Hangzhou announces Wang has returned to a full-time chair professorship after nearly 30 years overseas.

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World-renowned Chinese-Australian mathematician Wang Xujia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, has joined Westlake University in eastern China. Photo: Westlake University
China's military weapons

PLA fires up world’s first boron ramjet engine that can fly and swim

An engine that can carry weapons at incredible speeds through both air and water has been developed by Chinese scientists.

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China energy security

China plans ‘mind-boggling’ geoscience survey to hunt for natural resources

Thousands of researchers will work on US$1 billion SinoProbe II study over six years to create subterranean map of the country.

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Chinese history

Ancient Chinese proved the Pythagorean theorem in 17 characters: mathematician

A leading academic has highlighted China’s rich mathematical history, including a startling fact about a well-known theorem.

Pythagorean theorem was proved hundreds of years before Euclid by an ancient Chinese mathematician. Photo: Shutterstock
Archaeology and palaeontology

Russian scientists hail discovery of 32,000-year-old sabre-toothed cat cub

A remarkably well-preserved cat cub, tens of thousands of years old, was discovered in Russia’s permafrost.

The 32,000-year-old sabre-toothed tiger cub, which was found by Russian scientists in the Siberian permafrost. Photo: Academy of Sciences Yakutia via Reuters

China is a long way from reaching this year’s space launch target

Nearly half of the planned 100 missions have yet to take place, with one rocket engineer saying that lofty goal was ‘never possible’.

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Artificial intelligence

Chinese supercomputer tops global computing efficiency list

Tianhe Exa-node Prototype tops big data category, as Graph500 deems energy-aware big data computing necessary for future industry.

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SCMP Highlights

Recap | China’s Death Star-like weapon system, SpaceSail rivals Starlink: 6 science stories

Explore China’s cutting-edge innovations and latest scientific advancements in some of our latest science coverage.

Chinese scientists are bringing a converged energy beam weapon from fiction to life. Image: Lucasfilm/Disney

China poised to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink for Brazil’s satellite internet

Deal between Shanghai-based SpaceSail and Brazil telecoms company follows country’s earlier dispute with Musk’s social media platform X.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping holds talks with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua
China

Why China’s EV battery industry could hit 10 trillion yuan despite overcapacity

Nation’s ‘most criticised scientist’ Ouyang Minggao says lithium-ion advances could power sector to new heights, despite current overcapacity.

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Focus

China, US ‘have different definitions of deterrence’. Will this bring disaster?

Scholars say it is time to shed Cold War concepts imported from the West and develop distinctly Chinese nuclear strategy.

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China

From abusive patients to harassment: mistreatment of China’s medical students

Most medical graduates have experienced at least one form of bad behaviour from superiors or the people they are caring for, study finds.

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Most Chinese medical students report experiencing some form of mistreatment during their training. Photo: Xinhua
US-China tech war

How Trump’s first term broke decades-old tech barriers that troubled Beijing

Chinese team says in his first term Trump inadvertently broke down invisible barrier that had troubled Beijing for decades.

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SCMP Highlights

Chinese herbal medicine questioned, making sweeter tomatoes: 7 science highlights

From a TCM treatment for brain bleeds to controlling drones with a touchpad, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

SCMP Highlights

Recap | Hong Kong escalator chaos, Tokyo’s sex trade secret: 5 most-read stories

Here are five of our most popular stories from the past few days. Find out what people have been reading the most on SCMP.com.

A video circulating online showed several people sprawled on a halted escalator at an exit of the East Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station in Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP

Is this popular Chinese herbal medicine for brain bleeds useless?

The Lancet has published a study of a widely used traditional Chinese medicine – Zhongfeng Xingnao – which was developed in the 1980s.

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The Lancet medical journal has released the results of its study of FYTF-919, an oral liquid solution sold under the brand name Zhongfeng Xingnao, which has been used to treat brain bleeds since the 1980s. Photo: SCMP
China’s Mars mission

How a Chinese spacecraft will catch Mars rock samples for journey to Earth

A lightweight device on an orbiting module will capture a container about the size of a coffee can.

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Global climate expert Chen Deliang returns to China after decades in Europe

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences fellow has joined Tsinghua University’s earth system science department.

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For Shanghai-born international maths star Yilin Wang, curiosity adds up

Wang, winner of this year’s prestigious Salem Prize, speaks French, avoids the spotlight, and is ‘not a big fan’ of maths contests.

Yilin Wang is a junior professor at France’s Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, which supports advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics. Photo: Handout
China technology

China’s hypergravity marvel to ‘compress’ time and space

Revolutionary research tool will dial up gravity to mimic natural events and help to tap future energy reserves, solve engineering puzzles.

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The Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF), located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, is expected to help scientists solve a vast array of engineering challenges. Photo: ifeng
China

China scientists crack oil-water recycling in potential green win for industry

Unlike traditional methods that retrieve one ingredient from an emulsion, study outlines system that saves both.

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South China Sea

How Beijing flipped the South China Sea game with a single island

An isolated reef in the Spratly Islands holds the key to improved Chinese response times in the region, a new study says.

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Scientists increase fighter jet afterburner efficiency to nearly 100%: study

A Chinese development can improve the afterburner efficiency in fighter jets to 99 per cent. Photo: CCTV

China develops first cable winch system that can reach deepest place on Earth

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China has built the world’s first machine capable of laying submarine cables in the Challenger Deep, the deepest known place on Earth. Photo: Dalian Maritime University

Coating makes China’s stealth aircraft invisible to anti-stealth radar: study

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Anti-stealth radar, such as this one at a Chinese air show, will be blind to aircraft and weapons coated with a newly developed stealth material made by Chinese scientists. Photo: Dickson Lee

‘Recoilless AK-47’ that can be used by most drones built by Chinese scientists

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Even specialised unmanned weapon platforms or heavily modified drones struggle with the recoil of machine guns, compromising shooting accuracy and versatility. Newly developed rifle offers a solution to these challenges. Photo: Shutterstock

‘China EV’ sends Google search buzzing, as trail goes cold for ‘global warming’

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The number of online searches for “China EV” and other electric vehicle-related terms have been soaring, while searches for “global warming” have hit a record low. Photo: Reuters
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